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bob17bob17 

Get content of a static resource from withing a trigger

Anyone know how I could get the contents of a static resource, a text file, from within a trigger.  You can't create a PageReference and then use the getContent().toString() method - that's not allowed from within a trigger.

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance

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WesNolte__cWesNolte__c

Hey

 

You should be able to select the contents as you would with other object types e.g.

 

 List<StaticResource> sr = [Select body, name from StaticResource where Name = 'xx']; 

 

Cheers,

Wess 

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WesNolte__cWesNolte__c

Hey

 

You should be able to select the contents as you would with other object types e.g.

 

 List<StaticResource> sr = [Select body, name from StaticResource where Name = 'xx']; 

 

Cheers,

Wess 

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bob17bob17

Wess, you rock! 

 

Shame on me for not at least looking at the data model to see if Static Resources were an exposed object.

 

Thanks again,

 

Bob
Ispita_NavatarIspita_Navatar


Static resources are query-able via Apex, so you can extract the contents of a static resource after query and looping through the query results.


Please find attached the sample query:-
Select s.Id, s.Body From StaticResource s
bos beanbos bean

I have a text file in static resources.  when I ran this query, I found the body is either encoded or encrypted.  Any idea how it is stored in the databse?  Thanks
bos beanbos bean
I found it, it's base64 encoded.